Jimmie Johnson repeatedly said he's not in a slump. Jeff Gordon is closing in on the longest winless drought of his career. Mark Martin has nearly fallen out of the top 12. And Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored his first top-10 finish last weekend in seven races. What is going on at Hendrick Motorsports? The sport's mightiest organization hasn't won in the last 10 Sprint Cup races -- its longest drought since 2007.
FORT WORTH, Texas - Those who think they'll never see the likes of Hendrick Motorsports again may be onto something. After all, Hendrick is NASCAR's garage with gusto.
AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Ignore that talk about Hendrick Motorsports slipping into the pack. Jimmie Johnson, the two-time reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, gave Rick Hendrick's powerhouse team its first win of the year Saturday night at Phoenix International Raceway.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Five men did pretty much everything then. In a modest, barely heated, almost air-conditioned structure at the end of a dirt road, they would finish the cars Harry Hyde had crafted, drop in Randy Dorton's engines and fix Geoff Bodine's mistakes.
CONCORD, N.C. Dale Earnhardt Jr. couldn't defend Talladega from the Hendrick Motorsports domination. Then Richmond fell like Las Vegas, Atlanta, Bristol, Martinsville and Phoenix before it: With a whimper from Kasey Kahne, a weak charge from Carl Edwards and a tantrum or two from Tony Stewart.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - So much for Hendrick dominance. For one night, at least, the Hendrick Motorsports juggernaut, which accounted for 18 wins in 36 NASCAR Cup points races last year, came to a grinding halt in Sunday's Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.
RICHMOND, Va. -- Jimmie Johnson's celebration seemed a bit subdued. Maybe all these trips to Victory Lane are becoming routine for the Hendrick Motorsports crew. Johnson gave Hendrick its seventh win in the past eight Nextel Cup races by leading teammate Kyle Busch to a 1-2 finish Sunday at Richmond International Raceway. It was the third consecutive victory for Hendrick, which remained undefeated in the four races NASCAR has used its new Car of Tomorrow.
CONCORD, N.C. - Welcome to the Hendrick family, Kasey Kahne. Kahne pulled away to victory in the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, winning NASCAR's longest race for the third time and gaining his stripes for Hendrick Motorsports the only way that matters - taking the checkered flag.
Hendrick Motorsports occupies the NASCAR throne once reserved for Petty Enterprises, a fact rammed home by a statistical footnote to Sunday's Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. If a Hendrick car wins, it would be a fifth consecutive victory for the team this season, something that has happened only five times to date in the history of NASCAR's top racing division, currently Nextel Cup. The last time it occurred, it was Petty Enterprises with five straight wins in 1971. Before that, in the 1967 season, Petty cars had won 10 consecutive races.
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